Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jail since August on charges that he aided the Biafran secession. His voice is being heard loud and clear off Broadway. Two Soyinka one-acters were produced in November, and now the skillful and creative Negro Ensemble Company (TIME, Jan. 12) has undertaken his full-length Kongi's Harvest. In their hands, it is a considerably better production than it is a play, although there is some interest in seeing how an African writes about Africa's No. 1 problem: turning tribes into nations...
Kongi (Moses Gunn) is an Nkrumah-style dictator trying to get the cooperation of a tribal chief in organizing a harvest ceremony that will symbolize the unity of his new nation, Isma. The chief is a wily old rascal who knows a thing or two about exploiting tribal traditions for his own advantage. Kongi's more dangerous antagonist is the chief's nephew and heir, an educated young man presumably dedicated to the ideals of Western democracy...
...countryside, the Communists are busily reaping the harvest so painfully wrested from them over the past two years in allied operations: propagandizing the peasants, collecting rice and taxes and, above all, recruiting fresh soldiers for their depleted ranks-even impressing into their ranks some ARVN soldiers caught home on Tet leaves. About half of the South Vietnamese army was on leave when the Communists first struck nearly four weeks ago, and many ARVN soldiers have not yet returned to their units. The government's hope is that many of the missing offered their services to the nearest headquarters when...
...Bitter Harvest...
...economics of the industry, lack of unionization, inadequacy of the laws or failure to enforce them, or perhaps a combination of these factors. As a result, the exposes were neither as searing or as illuminating as Edward R. Murrow's 1960 CBS documentary on migrant workers, Harvest of Shame. But both of NET's programs proved, as one of the films concluded, that "the migrant condition is still the shame of the nation...